well its schrödingers seeker its both third and first gen until you look at it (which you cant)
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Precisely, this seeker is somehow housing 25x time optics, and high resolution thermals found in thermal gun pods. It doesn’t make much sense as to why anyone would spend so many resources on a seeker that’s going to get vaporized.
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or maybe it was like that on the real missile would explain why no one wanted it
lists the litening 5 at 1.4 million per unit
Because smart bombs cost really a lot of money anyway, so if you gotta vaporize a load of money at least make sure it does what you want XD
You can’t be serious.
well strapping a litening 5 pod to an atacms would still be 3 times cheaper than a single kinzal so dont know 1,700,000+1,400,000=3.1 million vs 10 million
The price of a LMUR something I would consider close to what an KH-38MT is cost only about $230,000. So no.
Find me a legit 2.2M missile with IR + IOG and we can talk. Obviously they thought those planes do need something like that.
Everyone having same missiles while having better FMs as well would be pretty fun. I guess you’re yet another person that failed to understand what is asymmetrical balancing.
may get flag for this but corruption under the name of “greater good” probably if thats the case
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yea i just tried to find a stupid expensive weapon system with thermal pod level resolution
(good luck finding a sources my atacms litening 5 hybrid does not exist )
and compared it to a even more stupid expensive weapon system which is in actual use
Well, Russia’s approach to procuring weapons always has scalability in mind. It probably explains why it was never adopted in the first place.
The -9E, -9J and most subsequently derived export variants use a Peltier cooler.
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This fits the requirements as specified, yes? 20K USD for the seeker and guidance section, the rest of the missile is government furnished (~2,800 USD). And so is effectively free since it’s already been bought, not that it would be anywhere near that expensive considering that production has been intermittent for almost 45 years now (FR-IP started 1981).
So, where do the upsides lie for other nations?
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Well you see, Russia gets the best SPAA, the best attack helicopter, the best (potentially fictional) ASM’s, the best air to ground lineup, and the best light tanks/IFV’s to make all the air assets easy to spawn.
The other nations in exchange get to be the glorious targets for RU players to abuse in ground battles :)
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Asymmetric balance is the KH-38ML:
You trade getting the best performance in every category for having to guide it against moving targets.
Unbalanced is the KH-38MT:
You trade nothing and get everything.
See how that works?
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lol.
Dude, if all this drama is just because you can’t handle fighting Soviet tech, maybe try different tactics. Unlike you, actual Russian players never whined to the devs about nerfing American vehicles on the forums. As an ASB player, I couldn’t care less about the X-38 missile, but I can’t help laughing every time English-speaking players throw another tantrum the moment any weapon outperforms their domestic favorites.
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X-38 is from late 2010s gng. Ka-52 entered service 2011, T-90M is late 2010s, so is T-80BVM. Su-30SM is from 2013
It is most definitely not Soviet tech ppl are fighting anymore
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Funny, reminds me of the whole F-14 story in Sim Battles)
A false flag. How do you even hope for an objective discussion of anything if you’re trying to hide objectionable posts?
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F-14 bad IR missiles, AIM-54 is skill check at best, AWG-9 is a shell of its true self, engines hotter than sun, mediocre CM count on the A models, no GEN-X, no AIM-9M, no 9L on A model, no RIO modeled
Kh-38MT has great seeker, great range, unmatched speed, IOG, and 2 solid launch platforms with a third mediocre one
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The Su-30 is still a modification of the Su-27 from the 1970s-80s.